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Deering Estate arts festival features theater, dance, music and more

The three-day Deering Estate Festival of the Arts may be short in duration, but it’s big in every other way. Linking the arts and the environment, the festival will showcase the work of 27 writers, 61 visual artists and 122 performing artists, with more than 100 works of sculpture, performances and installations throughout the estate on the edge of Biscayne Bay.

Saturday’s schedule kicks off at 10 a.m. with a master class by violinist Charles Castleman, featuring young South Florida string players. The ecological and environmental art exhibit opens at 3:30 p.m., and a National Water Dance performance featuring more than 100 singers, dancers and musicians takes place on the main lawn and boat basin at 4 p.m. Curator Lucinda Linderman leads visitors through indoor and outdoor exhibitions from 4:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. A guided mangrove forest tour happens from 4:30 p.m. to 9:15 p.m., and a fire circle highlighting poetry is scheduled from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Presenting artists will lead a guided tour of artworks from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Also on Saturday, children can enter a photography competition beginning at 3:30 p.m. (bring a camera or cellphone) and go on a self-guided ecology and environmental scavenger hunt.

At 6:30 p.m. April 13, Castleman and the founding members of the Deering Estate Chamber Ensemble will perform a concert focused on images of nature evoked by the music of Felix Mendelssohn and Erich Korngold. Admission to the concert is $25 for adults, $12 for children.

The Deering Estate at Cutler is located at 16701 SW 72nd Ave., Miami. For information, visit www.deeringestate.org.

The evening begins with a cocktail reception at 7 p.m., followed by Crow’s performance in the center’s smaller Amaturo Theater at 8:30 p.m. The celebration follows at 10 p.m. at the pavilion, which affords sweeping views of the New River, and its terraces. The Huizenga Pavilion will be home to the first-floor New River Bistro restaurant and the Porter Riverview Ballroom on its second floor.

The Broward Center is at 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale. For information on the gala, call 954-468-3284 or email foundation@browardcenter.org.

Dance conference

Miami Dade College’s Kendall Campus will host the third edition of an innovative dance and community program April 15-17. Artistry in Rhythm: Engaging the Community (AIR Dance Conference) offers master classes, lecture/demonstrations and performances. Guest artist/teachers include Pioneer Winter, Elaine Wright, Teo Castellanos, Hanan, Gelan Lambert and others. Classes will be offered in a wide range of styles, including ballet, belly dance, hip-hop, Afro-Haitian, liturgical, contemporary and modern dance, as well as workshops in choreography, panel discussions and a performance

The AIR Conference will be held at the Kendall Campus, 11011 SW 104th St, Miami, and is open to middle and senior high school students, college students and the community at large. Classes are held from 9 a.m. to 7:45 p.m., with nightly performances at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 and include admission to the evening AIR dance concert. Call 305-237-2426 or email airdanceconference@gmail.com for information.

Free singalong

The Miami Children’s Chorus will hold the final edition of All Together Now, the longtime youth chorus’ program of free community singalongs, at 11:30 a.m. Saturday . The program, which features performances by the beginning chorus and by children from the Leadership Learning Center and Playing the Game of Life program, takes place at at the North Shore Park and Youth Center, 501 72nd St., Miami Beach. Families and children will get to hum, clap and sing along on traditional American songs. Call 305-662-7494 or visit www.miamichildrenschorus.org.

Purcell concert

A Miami Bach Society concert dedicated to the memory of former Florida Gov. Reubin Askew will feature works by 17th century British composer Henry Purcell and his contemporaries.

Along with his family, Askew, who died March 13, supported the Bach Society since its founding in 1984.

Set for 2 p.m. Sunday at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Coral Gables, the concert is under the direction of the Bach Society’s Donald Oglesby. On the program are chamber and choral music performed by the University of Miami Collegium Musicum, the Miami Bach Society Chamber Players and Indiana’s Echoing Air ensemble under the direction of countertenor Steven Rickards.

Tickets are $30 ($40 for preferred seating, $5 for college students and New World Symphony Fellows, free to students under 18). The church is located at 5690 N. Kendall Dr. Call 305-669-1376 or visit www.miamibachsociety.org.

Visual arts

• Pérez Art Museum Miami welcomes visitors to its free Second Saturdays program from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday . Hands-on activities for children and adults, guided tours, guest artists and performers will be featured from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The museum is at 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. 305-375-3000 or www.pamm.org.
• Leica Store Miami is showing Leica, My First Camera, a retrospective by acclaimed photographer and humanitarian Mary Ellen Mark, whose work over the past four decades has become the benchmark for documentary photography. The exhibition is on view through mid-June. See it at 372 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables. 305-921-4433 or visit www.leicastoremiami.com.
• University of Miami graduate student Carolyn Kay Chema unveils her master’s thesis exhibition, Curiosities, with a preview Thursday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and an opening reception Saturday from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. The exhibition is at the UM Art Gallery at the Wynwood Building, 2750 NW Third Ave., Suite 4, Miami. Chema’s collection of digital photomontages accompanied by eclectic objects is on view by appointment only through April 25. 305-284-3161 or as.miami.edu/art.
• Tickets are on sale for Locust Projects’ annual fundraiser Spring Fling: La Dolce Vita. The event happens from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. April 26 at the 1111 Lincoln Road Parking Garage, Miami Beach. The evening includes music by DJ Le Spam, plus silent art, wine and luxury goods auctions. Tickets are $150 for nonmembers, $125 for members, $1,000 for groups of 10. 305-576-8570 or visit www.locustprojects.org.
• The Art Directors Club 93rd Annual Awards and Festival of Art + Craft in Advertising and Design runs Monday-Wednesday at several locations on Miami Beach. Workshops by innovative artists, including Miami-based street artist Kaz Williams, will take place at the James Royal Palm Hotel, 1545 Collins Ave., with nightly award ceremonies at the Bass Museum of Art, 2100 Collins Ave., and New World Center, 500 17th St. www.festival.adcawards.org

On campus

• Andrew Noble directs New World School of the Arts college juniors and seniors in Georges Feydeau’s farce A Flea in Her Ear. The play opens at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday for a brief run through April 13. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2 p.m. April 13 at the Louise O. Gerrits Theater at New World, 25 NE Second St., 8th Floor, Miami. Tickets are $12 ($5 for students and seniors). nwsa.mdc.edu.
• Barry University takes a contemporary approach to a Moliére play with Tartuffe: Born Again. The play runs from Thursday to April 13, with performances at 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. April 13. The show goes on at Barry’s Broad Auditorium, 11300 NE Second Ave., Miami Shores. Tickets are free. 305-899-3420 or visit www.barry.edu.
• Florida Atlantic University is presenting Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist classic Rhinoceros through April 13. Performances are 7 p.m. Friday, 1 and 7 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday at the Studio One Theatre, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton. Tickets are $20 ($12 for students, faculty, staff, alumni and children under 12). 800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com.

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